Secrets & Lies - Film - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Genre

Film

Released

1996

Stars

Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth Berrington, Michele Austin, Lee Ross and more

Writer

Mike Leigh

Director

Mike Leigh

Producer

Simon Channing Williams

When Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a black optometrist who was adopted as a child, begins the search for her birth mother, she doesn't expect that it will lead her to Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn), a desperately lonely white factory worker whose tentative embrace of her long-lost daughter sends shock waves through the rest of her already fragile family.

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Production

Studio

Picture

Colour

Soundtrack

Music by Andrew Dickson.

Broadcast details

All previous repeats

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